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USAID Workforce Slashed From 10,000 to Under 300 as Elon Musk’s DOGE Decimates Agency

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71% Informative

The move leaves only 12 people in the agency’s Africa bureau, and 8 people in its Asia bureau, with around 290 overall.

There will be some additional foreign workers retained, two USAID employees tell WIRED.

President Donald Trump has been similarly hostile to the agency.

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